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Dialect

Arts, Culture & Media
About that “Negro dialect”…
The phrase ‘Wha gwan’ (whaa gwaan) means ‘what’s going on’ in Jamaican Patois. The spelling varies but the meaning does not change.
Culture
Pidgin, patois, slang, dialect, creole — English has more forms than you might expect
Images from the Tumblr, “This Could Have Been Frozen”
Arts, Culture & Media
No room for African or Indian languages in Disney’s multilingual version of ‘Let It Go’
Gu Hangyu, sits with his grandmother Wang Yufang, at her home on Chongming Island near Shanghai. She speaks the Chongming dialect, but not standard Chinese.
Development & Education
Hundreds of millions of Chinese stubbornly resist speaking the ‘common tongue’
A Dictionary of American Dialect
Arts, Culture & Media
iPhone App Helps With Incomprehensible Dialect
The World in Words
Linguistic surrealism from China to Belgium
Arts, Culture & Media
Documenting India’s languages
The World in Words
Dictators with dialects, finger spelling and universal Inuit
Emerging Science Note/Regional Quacks
Regional Quacks